The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08
The anarchist organizations in Chicago
haua lishanded formally.

gers is missing.
lightning conductors were first set up
for the protection of buildings by Frank
lin shortly after 1852.
DR.. n. S. Davis, of Chicago, during a
half century of practice has not once pre-
scrlbcd alcoholic liquor.
One more wlacli ut railroad legislation,
and the conductor will have to pay his
fare like the passengers.
The United States liquor traders have
agreed to raise, by trade tax, $1,000, 900
for political purposes in 1883.
Ex-Vice President VIM. II. Wheeler,
died mt his home in Malone, n. Y, at 10.
10 o'clock on Saturday morning.
The bodies of GOO Chinese are about to
be disinterred at San Francisco and ship
ped to China for final interment.
The citv council, of Athens, Ca, has
dismissed One-third of the police force
since prohibition went into effect there.
Mr.. John A. Elkins and Mre. Elsie Z.
Mex night were married by Rev. Il. l..
Morris on the evening of May &c, 1887.
| w. w. Corcoran, the aged millionare
and philanthropist Of Washington city
was stricken with paralysis last Monday.
The five men who took the most active
part in the plot to assassinate the Car OF
Russia OH March 13, were executed May
| l6.
The otter's real value is recognized by
the Chinese alone. They train them to
fish, and q well-trained otter is worth
5000.
"Where the ablest preachers get the
largest salaries. the religious census
a. D,,
BdyiSS ial Western Advocate.
The bonds of the Asheville and Spar
tanburg Raj road have been bought up
by syndicate believed to be acting for
the Richmond G Danville Terminal Com
pany.
The forest fires, which have devastated
the northern peninsula of Michigan dur
ing the past fortnight caused a total loss
of 81, 100000. Eight lives are known to
have been lost.
The central crater at Mount Etna be-
gan erupting May 81. The flow contin-
ncs and is increasing in volume. Heavy
clouds of smoke and masses of stones
and cinders arc issuing from the crater.
| A woman at Grand Rapids, Mich, re-
covered $1,000 damages against rum
seller who sold liquor to her husband,
under the influence Of which he killed d
man and for that crime was sent to prison
| for life.
The Clarendon Enterprise says that
William II. Young killed Il spider the
other day that was so large that it drew d
Young chicken into its web a fooot from
the ground. The spider measured four
inches from tip to tip of legs.
A column has been erected in Rome on
Monte Pincio, with this inscription: "The
ncighboring palace, once the property OF
the MediciS, was the prison of Galileo,
who was guilty of having seen that the
earth rcvolved round the SUM-"
\ preacher in the Northwest is said to
have preached an entire year for salary
of two dollars, payable in bacon. The
paper which is authority for this intor-
nation says that the reverend gentleman
escaped from the place with his life.
Henry George, who is clamoring for a
division of property, received S75 for an
hours lecture the other night. The JAM
itor of the hall received only Is cents,
but Mr.. George did not offer to divide
with him.-NOrriSt0acn Herald.
DIR. A. Webster was married June l to
Miss S. o. Purdum, the matron of the In
dustrial Homo of The Clatiin University.
The ceremony was performed on the
campus ground of the College immediate
ly after tho closing of commencement ex-
ercises.
Sixty-five thousand persons, now resi-
dents of Europe, hold tickets for Amer
lea, and are only waiting for the steam
ers to bring them over. Europe has
many great statesmen, but they don't ap-
pear to know how to make life worth liv-
ing for their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Globe.
An employer in q Rhode Island factory
town recently paid his employees 500 on
Saturday in new bills secretly marked
On tho following Monday s4O0 of these
bills were placed in bank by the saloon
keepers of the place.
The clockmaking industry of COnnec-
ticut, which has supplied such large
portion of the world with timepieces, was
started a century ago by Abiel Peace,
who whitfield out his first clock with
jacknife.
But there is not something radically
wrong in our school system If the work
OF instruction is made so laborious that
teachers need to rest one-fourth Of the
year? Change they probably do need;
but their regular work should not be so
planned as to depress their natural vigor.
We need healthy men and women to
train the young.
Rev. IT. D. Witherspoon, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church, Louisville,
Kentucky, has been elected to succeed
Rev. DR.. James Woodrow in the chair OF
Natural Science in Connection with Reve-
lation, in the Columbia Theological Sem
mary, South Carolina.
The United Brewers Association at
Baltimore last week passed resolutions
sppropriatng 5000 for the brewers OF
Michigan, 5000 for the brewers of Texas,
and 5000 for the brewers OF Tennessee,
the money to be used in defeating Pro-
hibition in these States. 1t IS to the In
terest Of these men to give money; their
profits allow it. While temperance men
cannot conscientiously buy votes, they
ought to spend fully as much as the
brewers will spend in that way in dis
tributing information and making ap-
peal.
The South Carolina Press Association
met in Charleston last Thursday night.
Mr.. w. NJ. Jones of the Spartanbu1g
Herald delivered an admirable address in
which he discussed railroad discrimina-
tons. The Ne9s and Courier extended
an invitation to take boat ride around
the harbor which WAS accepted with
pleasure. The meeting adjourned on
Friday, and at five o'clock several mem
bers Of the Press Association sailed for
New York.
Franklin J. Moses, who, as Governor
Of South Carolina, at one time occupied
large share Of public attention, but who
is now an occupant of the Massachusetts
State Prison, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Ames, and will be releasted from